CNR Reforestation engine boss Miles Robinson, right, listens as Brandi Wytcherley gives him directions to a nearby spring on her property in Glendale, Oregon. Lightning late last week touched off dozens of fires in southwest Oregon near Glendale. Photograph: Michael Sullivan/AP

Newly sworn in U.S. citizen Rita Wilson (L) of Liberia hugs her mother Sarah Wilson (R) after a naturalization ceremony at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California. Over 1,100 immigrants became U.S. citizens at the naturalization ceremony. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca tosses a pistol onto a pile of guns to be melted at the Gerdau Steel Mill in Rancho Cucamonga, California. According to press releases from the sheriff's office, 5,495 weapons confiscated from criminals in Los Angeles County and collected through a gun buyback program are being melted. Photograph: David McNew/Reuters

Bahraini relatives and friends of Hussein Mansour Abdullah, mourn during his funeral in the western Shiite village of Malkiya, Bahrain. Authorities said Abdullah died while being transported in a police jeep that flipped over on a highway, also injuring two police officers. Opposition activists said they hold authorities responsible for his well-being in custody. Photograph: Hasan Jamali/AP

(L-R) Goalkeepers Iker Casillas, Adam, Jesus Fernandez and Diego Lopez practice during the second training session by Spanish football club Real Madrid in Westwood, New Jersey. Real Madrid will meet the LA Galaxy on August 3 in Los Angeles. Photograph: Armando Arorizo/ZUMA Press/Corbis

A trailer park occupied mostly by oil workers is seen in an aerial view in the early morning hours near Watford City, North Dakota. North Dakota has seen a boom in oil production thanks to new drilling techniques including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Photograph: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Free Bradley! US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning leaves a military court facility after hearing his verdict in the trial at Fort Meade, Maryland. A US military judge convicted Bradley Manning of espionage, leaving him facing a lengthy jail term despite clearing him on the most serious charge that he 'aided the enemy.' Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Amazon employees cheer as President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Obama came to Chattanooga to give the first in a series of policy speeches on his proposals for private sector job growth and to strengthen the manufacturing sector. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

Louis Pearl from San Francisco, The Amazing Bubble Man, rehearses for his performance which runs until 25th of August in the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, Scotland. The city is preparing ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival which runs from the 2 -26 August and is one of the largest arts festivals in the world, dating back to 1947. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) brings Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (R) and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat together for a handshake as they conclude a press conference after Middle East peace talks, at the State Department, in Washington DC, USA. Negotiators for Israelis and Palestinians will meet again in the region within two weeks to continue peace talks. Photograph: Mike Theiler/EPA

A supporter of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning protests outside the main gate before the reading of the verdict in Manning's military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland. A military judge is due to announce her verdict in the case of Manning, 25, who faces life in prison without parole if found guilty of aiding the enemy in releasing 700,000 classified documents, including battlefield reports, to the website WikiLeaks. Photograph: James Lawler Duggan/Reuters

A child enjoys a fountain shortly before a thunderstorm in Bucharest, Romania. Southern Romania is affected by a massive heatwave with temperatures of up to 40 Centigrade (104 Fahrenheit) in some areas. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Croatian's Andro Buslje (R) vies with Australian's Nathan Power (L) during the men's water polo quarter-final match at the FINA World Championships between Croatia and Australia at the Bernat Picornell swimming pool in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty Images

Signed out: New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner is surrounded by opposing candidate signs as he speaks to the media after a candidate forum on small business, in the Inwood section of the borough of Manhattan, in New York. Weiner plunged to fourth place among Democrats in a poll taken since he admitted to having illicit online exchanges with women even after he resigned from Congress amid a sexting scandal. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

A Palestinian girl reads the Koran before her breakfast during the holy month of ramadan in Jabaliya refugee camp north Gaza Strip. Photograph: Ali Ali/EPAA Palestinian family eat their breakfast outside their tent in a poverty-stricken quarter of the town of Younis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Ali Ali/EPA

Revelers wait for the start of the Carnival of Flowers celebrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photograph: Dieu Nalio Chery/APA man dressed as Haitian national hero Jean-Jacques Dessalines lies in a coffin during a performance at the Carnival of Flowers. Photograph: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP

A smuggled leopard skin is burnt by Indian officials and activists in Mumbai. Other poached items include tiger skins and bones which are highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the shortlist for the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Here is Rogelio Bernal Andreo's entry of 'A Flawless Point': the Milky Way arching over Yosemite Valley in California’s famous national park. See more of the shortlisted images in the gallery here. Photograph: Rogelio Bernal Andreo.

People look at messages left in memory of the victims of the 24 July train crash, at the Cathedral in Plaza do Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

Thai soldiers in white biohazard suits take part in a clean-up operation of crude oil that leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand at Ao Prao Beach, Rayong. Thai soldiers use special sheets of paper in a clean-up operation. Layers of oil are shoveled at Ao Prao Beach on Koh Samet. Photographs: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning is escorted by military police as arrives to hear the verdict in his military trial for passing classified material to WikiLeaks, at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Inglorious Goodwood: A wet and windy day at Sussex racecourse on the first day of the Goodwood festival. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty ImagesA racegoer struggles with wet and windy conditions. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson poses for a picture at DP World London Gateway Port in Stanford-le-Hope, England. The Mayor visited the deep sea port in Essex ahead of its opening towards the end of this year. The port will be Europe's largest and hopes to create many jobs. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesJust like that: Boris Johnson sits in the operator's cab of a crane on the quay while visiting DP World London Gateway. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/PA

Competitors jump into the pool at the start of a heat of the women's 200M freestyle swimming event in the FINA World Championships at Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain. Photograph: Francois Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images

Police escort a lorry to the entrance gate of a drill site operated by Cuadrilla Resources Ltd in Balcombe, southern England. Protestors fear that Cuadrilla will use the controversial extraction method of fracking of oil and gas from underground shale rock. Cuadrilla has said it plans to conduct exploratory drilling in a temporary operation which will not include fracking. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Tourists play in the surf at Ao Phia beach on Koh Samet island, Thailand. This part of the island was not affected by the oil spill that fouled the west side of the island over the weekend. Photograph: ZUMA/Rex Features

Axeman or 'Hacha' Juan Manuel Barranco, removes the bark of a cork oak at Parque Natural de los Alcornocales near Alcala de los Gazules, Spain. Spain and Portugal are the largest producers of cork in the world with Los Alcornocales Natural Park in the Iberian Peninsula being the leading region for production. The bark from the oak is harvested every nine years, using traditional methods.Here Jesus Rios Nogales, and Ezequiel Rodriguez, removet a pile of cork planks from boiling water at the factory in El Pedroso, near Seville, Spain. The best planks are sourced for wine bottling corks while the rest is processed into agglomerate cork.It's hot work in the forest, too: Bark collector or 'recogeor' Juan Ortega, 43, drinks water during a break from carrying the bark of the cork oaks. Photographs: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

Magda Ketterer, an east Asian art specialist holds a unique vase made by renowned Japanese artist Kumeno Teitaro, which sold for £17,000 in McTears' Asian Works of Art sale this morning, in Glasgow. The vase is an example of Teitaro's technique of transparent enamel applied over a design in silver. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Relatives gather around the coffins in Moterusciello, southern Italy, during a mass funeral for the 38 people killed in Italy when a coach plunged off a viaduct near Naples. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

An aerial view of destruction in the al-Khalidiyah neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs. This is an image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images